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CONTACT INFO


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MWANGE CARLVIN JERRY


I am a BSc. Financial Engineering graduate with a specialization in quantitative analysis and data science. I am a quick learner,open minded and curious to engage in new ideas with challenges and efficient problem-solving tasks. I enjoy working environments that push my skills to the limit, motivated by quality results. I am cooperative, I have good problem solving skills, a team player, eager to learn and good at taking direction.Excellent verbal and communication skills as well as interpersonal skills.

Education

B.S., Financial Engineering

Jomo Kenyatta University Of Agriculture And Technology

Nairobi, KE

2017 - 2013

  • Reserch Project: Comparison between constructing an options hedge and a hedge on futures for market risk mitigation.
  • Key Units: Probability & Statistics, Risk Theory for Financial Investments, Statistical Programming for Finance (R,Python)


Industry Experience

SKILLS

F# - Functional programming

Julia - Numerical Computing

Power BI / Tableau

Python - Data Analysis & ML

R(tidyverse, Shiny) - Data Analysis & ML

SQL - DBMS

I have worked in a variety of roles mainly revolving research & development in data analytics. I like collaborative environments where I can learn from my peers. Capable of working well both individually as well as in teams with minimum or no supervision and follow through assignments.

Quantitative Analyst

Innova Limited

Nairobi, KE

Current - 2018

Mathematical Engineering Intern

Innova Limited

Nairobi, KE

2017 - 2016















Selected Data Science Writing

Being an avid data analyst, I challenge myself often to tackle different data analysis & visualization problems.Findings from these challenges are documented on my personal blog.

Personal blog articles based on data science research topics and practices

Beyond Raw Data Blog

N/A

Current - 2019

  • This is my personal blog where I get to showcase some of my projects and research findings in data scince.

Digital Nudging, using Twitter data to solve a nudge case scenario

Beyond Raw Data Blog

N/A

2019 - 2019

  • A case study and write up on the resulting solution I came up with during a hackathon hosted by Safaricom PLC on applying nudge theory to extract information from social media users online.
  • Coded in R and Pyhton.


Selected Projects

My Data Science projects

Projects

N/A

N/A

  • Documentation of personal projects and findings on data analysis, visualization and machine learning.
  • Work primarily done in R Shiny, Python, F# and Microsoft Azure.



Honors & Awards

The Capital Markets Authority Regulatory Sandbox

CMA Regulatory Sandbox

N/A

Current - 2019

  • Participation in developing a cloud based platform for financial markets data analysis and reporting. The CMA and RBA expect quarterly reports from every registered fund manager for regulatory purposes, the analytics system automates generation of these reports buy enabling the regulatory bodies to seamlessly access required data without collecting manually generated reports from fund managers. This mitigates possible discrepancies that may arise due to human error or negligence during manual generation of the said reports.
  • Product of Innova Limited

Data Science hakathon by Safaricom Alpha

Strathmore University

Nairobi, KE

2019 - 2019

  • Finalist, Digital Nudging on Twitter data competition

Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Certificate

LGIT Smart Solutions

N/A

2019 - 2019

  • Certificate of completion of the Microsoft Azure Machine Learning course.
  • Work done in Microsft Azure and Python








Referees

George Mbuthia Ndungu,
Software Engineer,
Microsoft EA, Kenya,
Tel: +254 710 773 556,
Email:


Michael Kaboro Maina,
Engineering Team Lead,
Innova Limited Kenya,
Tel: +254 721 205 226,
Email: